The following criteria shall be used to do seeding for all USTA National Championships, USTA National Opens, and USTA Regional Tournaments.
| Number of Seeds in Singles and Doubles Draws |
| Draw Size |
Required Number of Seeds |
| 128 or 192 |
32 seeds: top 16 seeded numerically; next 16 seeded alphabetically |
| 64 or 96 |
16 seeds: top 8 seeded numerically; next 8 seeded alphabetically |
| 32 |
8 seeds: all seeded numerically |
| 16 |
4 seeds: all seeded numerically |
Singles Seeding Criteria for USTA Boys’ and Girls’ 18 and 16 National Championships
1. Seeding shall be done using the most recently published National Standings List of the division.
- Players may be moved within major groups (1-4, 5-8, 9-16, 17-32) due to direct wins if players are separated by less than 100 Ranking Points
- Players may be moved between major groups due to direct wins if players are separated by less than 50 Ranking Points.
2. Players not previously seeded who are ranked in the:
- top 500 on the most recently published WTA ranking list or top 1000 of the most recently published ATP ranking list,
- top 100 on the most recently published ITF ranking list,
- top 100 on the most recently published ITA ranking list, shall also be considered for seeding.
Singles Seeding Criteria for USTA Boys’ and Girls’ 14 and 12 National Championships
Seeding shall be done using the most recently published National Standings List of the division in the order in which players appear on the list.
- Players may be moved within major groups (1-4, 5-8, 9-16, 17-32) due to direct wins if players are separated by less than 100 Ranking Points.
- Players may be moved between major groups due to direct wins if players are separated by less than 50 Ranking Points.
Singles Seeding Criteria for USTA National Opens and USTA Regional Tournaments
Seeding shall be done using the most recently published National Standings List of the division in the order in which players appear on the list.
- Players who are accepted based on their standing in the next younger age division may be seeded in the last group of seeds (5-8 or 9-16, depending on the draw size) if they are in the top 50 of the most recently published National Standings List of the next-younger age division.
- Players from the National Standings List of the division may be moved within major groups (1 4, 5-8, 9-16) due to direct wins if players are separated by less than 100 Ranking Points.
- Players from the National Standings List of the division may be moved between major groups due to direct wins if players are separated by less than 50 Ranking Points.
Doubles Seeding Criteria
- Seeding shall be done using the most recently published National Standings List of the division.
- Teams shall be seeded in the order of their combined standings (e.g., Player A holds the #1 standing and Player B holds the #10 standing. The Team of A&B would have the combined standing of 11.) Teams that have the same combined standing shall be seeded in the order of the total number of doubles Ranking Points held by each team.
- Tournament Committees of 18-and-under tournaments may consider for seeding teams with players who have ATP/WTA rankings, ITF rankings, or ITA rankings.
- Teams may be moved within major groups (1-4, 5-8, 9-16, 17-32) due to direct wins if the teams are separated by less than 100 Ranking Points.
- Teams may be moved between major groups due to direct wins if players are separated by less than 50 Ranking Points.
- Teams not previously seeded who have combined doubles Ranking Points higher than the last seeded team may be seeded in the last group (5-8, 9-16, or 17-32).